Genre Summary

“What Is Auntrolye?”

Auntrolye is a cinematic genre focused on the legitimate, structured depiction of subjective identity, where perception guides the entirety of the film narrative and dictates everything within it, in real time.

It is not about surrealism or disorientation for effect, but about how a character’s internal emotional architecture determines the very logic of the world they inhabit. In Auntrolye, events do not happen to the character, they happen because of how the character processes them. The narrative follows emotional causality, not objective chronology.

Rather than using distortion as a stylistic device, Auntrolye formalizes it. Contradictions are not errors but consequences of belief. Time can be nonlinear because memory defines sequence. Conversations may loop, skip, or collapse, not for visual flair, but because the character’s understanding demands it. What matters is not what “really” happened, but what the character has internalized as truth. And once internalized, that truth becomes binding.

Crucially, Auntrolye is not a theme, tone, or aesthetic. It is a structural mechanism where the plot must operate under the emotional laws of commonly, a single perspective, often flawed, fragmented, or disintegrating. The viewer is not watching the character’s mind, they are trapped within it. That immersion is not abstract, it is systemic. The genre’s integrity depends on replacing omniscience with subjectivity, and replacing objectivity with consequence. In doing so, Auntrolye redefines what it means for a film to be “realistic”, not by conforming to reality, but by being consistent to the truth as perceived.